A team of scientists who made breakthroughs in research involving human and chimp genomes will be attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week with philanthropist Eli Broad for a new Broad Institute building in Cambridge, Mass.

A team of scientists who made breakthroughs in research involving human and chimp genomes will be attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week with philanthropist Eli Broad for a new Broad Institute building in Cambridge, Mass. The Institute is a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research that studies the power of genomics to understand human disease.

Researchers at the Broad Institute recently published a groundbreaking theory suggesting that when the ancestors of human beings and the ancestors of chimpanzees parted ways 6 million years ago, it was probably a very long goodbye--about 1.2 million years. According to the theory, chimps and humans shared a common, ape-like ancestor much more recently than previously thought.

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